How many editors contributed to making the set of mood tags? 10? 100? 1000?Can you give a ballpark figure?Also, how many are responsible for allocating the tags to artists once they have been generated? Is is the same set of editors?

That's a tough one, since there have been so many editors working on the project over the past 20+ years. I would say that there were over 100 altogether (including freelance editors at different times) but that would just be a guess.

Also, how many are responsible for allocating the tags to artists once they have been generated? Is is the same set of editors?

1. At this point, are there any new tags being added, or are they pretty much fixed now?

2. Are you able to provide me with stats on the tags? For example, from what I can tell there are 297 distinct tags. Are you able to tell me how often each tag has been used across all music? ( i.e., select tag_name, count(*) from artist_table group by tag_name )

2. Can you please check? I could crawl the site myself but that would take a lot of work. I know you could do it with one query. I am a university researcher and would love to have this high level summary data for a presentation I am doing.

Hello, I have heard that Allmusic allows users/consumers to participate in the labelling of music, including the labelling of the mood of music. You mentioned above that editors created the metadata. How many editors do you have in your company? Can users/consumers serve as editors?

The genre, style, mood and theme tags applied at the Artist and Album level are still provided by the editorial staff. The user reviews for albums that are contributed are just the text of the user's written review for the album, but there is no method for end users to contribute mood tags to the albums or artists.

One area where we are looking for user contributions for genre, style, mood and theme are on the Song pages. More detail is here: